I would argue that there were two major quality improvements in TV with the advents of video tape and digital compression.
You obviously know nothing about digital compression. Digital compression is a *quantity* issue, not quality. Digital compression allows for the hundreds of channels we have today. Overuse of digital compression leads to picture pixellation and grainy, faded-looking colors. Really looks bad on a larger screen television.
Hmmmm. With MandrakeSoft teaming up with HP, SuSE now owned by Novell, and Red Hat already being a publicly-traded corporation, I think we're seeing a new phase for companies with popular Linux distros being more tied to the corporate world and less to their "grass roots" origins. I guess it was only a matter of time.
Another place to try contacting for a *potential* flat-panel C-Band satellite panel is
here. The Alien Works, Ltd. website is at Alien Works, Ltd. but it only has a PDF file that's been there for several years. I don't know if they'll ever have a commercial product, but it's worth a try.
Also, for C-Band/TVRO satellite newbies, try reading the TVRO FAQ.
I don't think people like Richard Stallman, Ken Thompson, and Eric Raymond want to be put in the same category as...and Cap'n Crunch.
Well, maybe not the criminal aspects of Cap'n Crunch (John Draper). But understand, Draper was a damn smart hack even if much of what he did was illegal. He not only stumbled across the 2600 Hz-toy whistle, he actually had a portable, homemade phone switchboard (no joke!) in his van; that takes some smarts to build something like that.
Also, Draper used Apple II computers to connect to networks such as ARPANET (the Internet/WWW ancestor) over the phone system decades before most non-computer scientists; he obviously had no "high speed" network access. Draper, believe it or not, wrote the first word processor (Easywriter) for the IBM PC. Draper understood the phone system in terms of tandems (like IP routers are to the Internet), undersea cables, and satellite links. If a person could *easily* do this with modern Internet equivalents, you'd say the guy was brilliant. Also, computer BBSes and Usenet didn't even exist yet.
This is stuff we take for granted on the Internet today, but during the 1970s (before the break up of Ma Bell in 1984), phone-assisted computer communication was completely *illegal*.
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I would argue that there were two major quality improvements in TV with the advents of video tape and digital compression.
You obviously know nothing about digital compression. Digital compression is a *quantity* issue, not quality. Digital compression allows for the hundreds of channels we have today. Overuse of digital compression leads to picture pixellation and grainy, faded-looking colors. Really looks bad on a larger screen television.
...speeches by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are also scripted by the MPAA....
First, Longhorn keeps getting delayed, and now SQL Server is delayed until 2005. This is going to help Microsoft's open source competition greatly.
Hmmmm. With MandrakeSoft teaming up with HP, SuSE now owned by Novell, and Red Hat already being a publicly-traded corporation, I think we're seeing a new phase for companies with popular Linux distros being more tied to the corporate world and less to their "grass roots" origins. I guess it was only a matter of time.
Thanks for the props, brendan_orr! I wrote both of those articles (really).
Wikipedia is a good resource for all types of information, even on C-Band/TVRO.
Another place to try contacting for a *potential* flat-panel C-Band satellite panel is here. The Alien Works, Ltd. website is at Alien Works, Ltd. but it only has a PDF file that's been there for several years. I don't know if they'll ever have a commercial product, but it's worth a try. Also, for C-Band/TVRO satellite newbies, try reading the TVRO FAQ.
I don't think people like Richard Stallman, Ken Thompson, and Eric Raymond want to be put in the same category as...and Cap'n Crunch.
Well, maybe not the criminal aspects of Cap'n Crunch (John Draper). But understand, Draper was a damn smart hack even if much of what he did was illegal. He not only stumbled across the 2600 Hz-toy whistle, he actually had a portable, homemade phone switchboard (no joke!) in his van; that takes some smarts to build something like that.
Also, Draper used Apple II computers to connect to networks such as ARPANET (the Internet/WWW ancestor) over the phone system decades before most non-computer scientists; he obviously had no "high speed" network access. Draper, believe it or not, wrote the first word processor (Easywriter) for the IBM PC. Draper understood the phone system in terms of tandems (like IP routers are to the Internet), undersea cables, and satellite links. If a person could *easily* do this with modern Internet equivalents, you'd say the guy was brilliant. Also, computer BBSes and Usenet didn't even exist yet.
This is stuff we take for granted on the Internet today, but during the 1970s (before the break up of Ma Bell in 1984), phone-assisted computer communication was completely *illegal*.